CaseLight1996
San Diego, CA, USA
Man witnesses a tiny, very bright obj. moving across sky. Obj. gains alt., brightens, remains motionless 20 min. Suddenly disappears.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-17
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 min.
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-diego-ca-1996-2e346f
In context
- San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from California in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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